The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-08-06


Clean, commanding, left for Hsgerstown at
o'clock on Monday night. There were thirty .eigh
men in line and they presented q very soldierly
appearance in their new uniforms, spiked helmets
rolled blankets and knapsacks. The company ex
poets to return next Tuesday morning.
The work-or rather the want of ito
of the 18th district road supervisors, is caus
ing great deal of complaint If they fail t.
perform their duties properly they should be re
ported to the County Commissioners. The tax
payers have a right to expect some return fol
the money they pay to keep their roads in proper
repair.
a band of Turks, travelling through th'
country with two bear, camped at Jockeys tavern
on the Falls road, last Sunday. They were very
unruly for time and one Of them gave his wife q
severe beating. They were in Towsontown on
Monday and presented q sorry looking sight
There ought TO be a law TO prohibit these worth
less people from prowling over the country
-Dyseutery, in q very dangerous form, Is
prevailing In Hereford. 18th district, and the peo'
pie are considerably alarmed. Mr.. Samuel Nay
Tor has lost two Of his children, and two more are
very IN with the disease, while there have been
several other deaths from it. DIR. Mitchell, an old
and experienced physician, says be has not seen
the disease in its present form in many years.
Mr.. John r. King, book-keeper for Mr.
WIN. ID. Randall, the we'll known grocer on Baiti.
more street, while at Bay Ridge last Sunday, at
tempted to dive from pole into shallow water
His head struck the ground, rendering him I'M
conscious and injuring his spine from which be
died on Thursday. The unfortunate young man
was % years Of age and a son Of Mr.. Sol. King,
wholesale druggist, south Calvert street.
Some months ago Mr.. E. Scott Dance, oil
Dulapy's Valley, took a woman from Bayview
Asylum as a domestic in his family. She had a
young child, which died after ii had been at Mr.,
Dances short time. This week he came before
the County Commissioners with bill for the
funeral expenses of the child and the Board re-
fused TO pay 1t because the woman was not a resi-
dent of the county and because she was earning
her living when the child died. And they were
right.
During the progress of one of the recent
thunder storms ball of fire struck on the track
of the Maryland Central railroad, near the station
here and followed the rail to Woodbrook station,
where il left It and knocked down horse that was
being driven on Charles street avenue, where 1t
disappeared. Neither the horse nor the persons
in the wagon at the time were hurt. gentleman
who was standing on the platform at Towsontown
had his umbrella knocked out of his hand by the
shock.
The colored thief who stols Mr. T. R. Amos
harness tried to sell them to Mr.. Harry A. Parr.
who is living for the summer near Lutherville.-
The harness is worth $40 and the thief asked 81
for it. Mr.. Parr gave him so cts. and told him to
come back the next day for the balance. In the
meantime Mr.. Amos was notified and was on hand
when he came for the money, but the scamp saw
him and ran off. Mr.. Parr fired three shots at the
thief but unfortunately none of them took effect
and he escaped.
Mr.. Charles O. Kemp, whose extreme i'll
ness was announced in THE UNION last week, died
Mt his residence on the York road short distance
above Govanstown, on Saturday night, aged Al
years. He was deputy under Sheriff Slade and
was subsequently keeper of the aims and
marshal of the county police. For several years
he had conducted the Three Mile House, Hooks
town road. Deceased was a son of Mr.. Shadrach
Kemp, of the 9TH district, and leaves wife and
six children. The cause of his death was Bright's
disease.
"A man employed by gentleman who lives
a short distance from Towsontown did very
funny thing the other night. His employer
house is situated in the edge of woods and as he
was on his way home, the night being very dark,
he ran up against tree. This made him very
angry and going to the house he procured an axe
and cut the tree down. His employer, seeing
what he done, demonstrated with him about it,
when the fellow replied that "the id tree had
no business running into me-" 1t is almost un-
necessary to add that this eminent tree-chopper
halls from Hartford county.
w. Jennings Demorest editor of the New
York magazine which bears his name, attended
the temperance camp-meeting at Glyndon and
stopped ut Mr.. Crout's hotel, at Emory Grove
On retiring one night he ordered pitcher of ice-
water, and when he came down the next morning
he asked servant if Mr. Crout sold whisky. Upon
being answered in the negative he said he thought
it very strange because the water he ordered the
night before certainly tasted like the "real old
stuff" The fact was the water did taste of the
pump stock, SO we naturally conclude that Mr..
Demorest is either very poor judge of whisky, or
that he has been used to drinking an exceedingly
mean brand of that article.
On Saturday last three young girls were
brought from the House of Correction to TOwson-
town for hearing before Judge Yelott under a
writ of habeas corpus. They came in charge of
an officer, on one of the York road cars, and they
presented sorry sight. Two of them were with
out shoes and all were very scantily clad. They
we're loud mouthed and brazen and the ladies who
were in the car had an exceedingly disagreeable
experience with them. We are much surprised
that the York road company should allow its pas
sengers to be brought in contact with such speci-
mems of humanity. If the company must carry
these people special car should be furnished for
the purpose.
An intelligent colored minister, at the Tow
sontown camp meeting last Sunday, said that his
special business here was "to reform Sandy Bot
TOM" We are glad that he has undertaken this
work, and he deserves to succeed, but we fear his
efforts will prove fruitless. His desire is to make
the colored people of the town-those who 60 out
to service-feel sense of their responsibility to
employers and make them see that it is their duty
to do an honest days work for an honest days
pay. As rule the colored women who hire out
as domestic servants are so utterly unreliable and
incompetent that housekeepers, in many instances,
do their own work rather than bother with them.
Their chief object appears to be to see how much
work they shirk by going off to pic-nics, ex-
cursions, &C., without giving any consideration
to the trouble and inconvenience their employers
l.. ,nse ka h.
his efforts bring about different order of things
he will have accomplished work for which the
people of this community will feel deeply grateful
A Big Case About a Little Dog.-A very
amusing dog case was tried before Justice Hevern
of Highandtown, on Tuesday afternoon, lasting
several hours. John Derschinger, a carpenter OF
that place was charged with the larceny of a
black and white Beagle hound, and the Office OF
the Justice was crowded with neighbors and friends
to hear the case disposed Of. The evidence was
that about two years ago Mr.. Derschinger was
the owner of valuable pup and one day the little
animal disappeared and as Mr.. Derschinger sup
| posed he would see it "no more forever" II
transpired, however, that on the 18th ultimo, a;
| Mr.. Derschinger was passing the Highlandtown
and Point Breeze stables, he espied his dog in the
custody Of Frank Virengel who had him held by
| a strap. Mr.. Derschinger, as soon as he saw hi:
little pet, unbuckled him from the strapsand tool
him in custody, notwithstanding Mr.. Virengepl
objections, who said that he had bought him from
John Geller and had paid him $50 for the animal
Mr. Geller, in defense, said that he had found thu
| dog wandering about and took him in charge, a
he evidently was lost, and after taking care o.
him for some time he sold him to Virengel. Al
this iuncture in the case question as to the iden
tity of the dog arose, and Mr.. Derschinger asked
if anybody knew of any distinguishing mark OF
the dog. The compliments answered no, and h
then, triumphaatly picking up the animal, showed
mark on the right side of the belly, which b.
said he made with hot poker few days afte
the animal was born. Squire Hevern, after hear
ing the evidence, found it 80 knotty that he wa
at frst disposed to act like Solomon and order tn
animal to be divided and piece given to eacl
claimant. He concluded, however, to hold tn
case under Amusement for few days.
| Golden Wedding.-Mr. and Mrs. Abraham
| Brown, who for many years resided on Chestuu
Ridge, Sth district, on Sunday last celebrated tn
fftieth anniversary of their marriage, or colder
wedding, at the residence of their son, Mr.. j
| Wilson Brown, Unknown Baltimore business
man, at Waverly, Baltimore county. This nov
venerable couple we're married July 3Oth, 1887
the brides maiden name having been Sarah Jan
| Hatton. The ceremony was performed in Balti
more by Rev. Jos. Merriken. All their children
and grandchildren, and also their nephews, Messrs
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